to get them to change their position and that s big news and they got to me, and said he still supports it and you saw the reaction by awful presidential candidates by all of the women s rights groups like emily s list like planned parenthood, who said you know what, in this context, joe biden, you may have supported this your entire career, but we are in a moment that we have not faced, since the inception of roe, with the unprecedented assault on above rights. and i think, we don t know exactly what went through biden s head really, we do know from our own reporters, and mike and marianna, on the ground, that this happened last minute. even his aides, two to three hours before his speech, said that they didn t know what he was going to do. he seemed to not be reading this from the teleprompter. and actually speaking from the heart. and if you listen to what he said there, this is a moment of acknowledgment from biden that yes, we have been in a unique moment, with all of the laws at
rape, incest, or to save the life of a woman. that came just a day after an exclusive nbc news report from heidi, documenting biden s record on abortion in which the biden campaign reaffirmed his support for the restriction. facing a swift backlash from abortion rights activists and at least 12 of his rivals for the 2020 democratic nomination, biden opened with these comments to a dnc gathering last night, in atlanta. for many years, as u.s. senator, i have, i supported the hyde amendment, like many, many others, have but we now see so many republican governors, denying health care to millions of the most, poorest, the most vulnerable americans by refusing medicaid expansion. i can t justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability to constitute, to exercise their constitutionally protected right. and if i believe health care is
with the setting that he s in. all you have to do is to say, we re here to honor the men and women who served. very simple. meanwhile, we will talk with some of the people who hope to replace president trump. a poll shows insight on who will make the cut for the first presidential debate in miami. je biden at 30% comfortably. and senator bernie sanders at 15%. senator elizabeth warren at 8%. and kamala harris with 6% and pete guj buttigieg 5%. buttigieg 5% the poll is especially significant since the dnc is counting it into who makes this month s debate stage. joe biden is abandoning a long-held position on abortion. in remarks last night, biden abruptly changed his stance on the amendment, a four decade old ban on using federal funds for abortions, except in cases of
poor women of color who are often the ones seeking abortions in states that they can. and i think it is interesting to watch the issues on which he does change and where he feels he is in step and out of step with the democratic party as he sees it. here is the rejoinder to all of this. if biden does become the nominee, the polling tells us that the majority of the public actually still supports the hyde amendment, so what you re seeing here is that within moments of biden switching his position, the rnc, the trump campaign all pouncing on this as a flip-flop. so while biden has neutralized this arguably, we ll see, in a democratic primary, if he is the candidate, if he is the nominee, he is definitely going to get hammered on this by the republicans. still ahead on morning joe, as u.s. allies gathered in normandy, two other world leaders were meeting in moscow. they re china s president, called vladimir putin his best friend during a three-day visit to russia. we ll talk about t
story. why the need to embellish it like the journalists say, hey, it s a question of whether it really happened? one more time, these are perfectly legitimate questions that cnn is asking. all i m asking for is consistency. joe biden when he was running said he was a coal miner. je biden nerve of worked in a coal mine. hillary said her mom named her after sir edmund hillary, climbing everybody vest. barack obama said his mother and father, a black plan, a white woman, inspired to get married have and ray child because of the selma mar inch 65. obama was born four years before the selma march 65. but larry let me finish, those discrepancies didn t kill their candidacy, any more than these discrepancies ought to kill ben carson s candidacy. they are legitimate things to ask about. peep enhance their resume. i don t know why they do it but these things are hardly deal breakers. here s the problem with